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Hey all, as a growing student of music I've always been interested in the members of this site that also play, read, study, and or write music. So I figured we could use our own thread. Here we can discuss musical concepts from quarter notes to perfect double augmented 5th intervals!

Post your music here (providing links to sites with you music and not direct mp3's. Keep our boards clean people! ) Comment on the music. Look for it's strong elements. Suggest diffrent courses of action. Don't just dismiss a piece of music as bad. Suggest styles of music individuals can compose in. Honestly I created this thread as a students helper. If you having trouble in you studies talk about it here!

I suspect there are many members of the board who are interested in music.

I'm currently in the process of building a new homepage to host my music (at least what already is presentable of it... some is just bad MIDI), but that will take some time.

Well, here is a sample of my music, a short overture I did for a friend's university project (an interactive internet novel - the overture music was made for a presentation of her story concept, meant to depict the general athmosphere, a woman buying a lonely old manor house, and finding clues to several old legends in there (on legend being of a great African warrior)).

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Here is a collection of some of my stuff (compositions and adaptations)... It's mostly aload of unfinished stuff as I start something and get bored and stop pretty quickly, but Meh ... Ranging from CRAP to Good (imo)

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Chris, who would have some place to host some music for some time, if it isn't too much

Well it's up to you how much space you can permit me to use. I can select two or three solid longer compositions if we're talking 10 MB, but I can select some smaller things and cut some things up if less than that...

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Agreed. You've captured Williams' sound in some of those tracks a little tooo well. Are you John Williams?

Hehe.. 7M1 and "Star Wars Bay" are direct adaptations of Stuff From Indiana Jones and Star Wars Ep 1.. I just like to sort of see If I can write stuff sometimes really.. The rest is all original Composition.

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Have you heard the theme to "Inside the Actors' Studio" (from TV) written by Angelo Badalamenti? The last part of "Aurora" puts me in the mind of that. A compliment, as I think that is a beautiful piece.

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Jack, what do you know that I don't? I'm 18, and none of the stuff that I write is of the caliber that you've written, it seems to me. Do you study scores? How do you do it?

~Conor

I don't study scores (Although I would Love to), because I find that they are amazingly expensive. All I do is listen to lots of Film Music really. Also, I sit at the piano for at least 4 hours a week and just play "stuff", I basically just improvise film music.

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I've just started on a piece called "Clockwork". It's for my A-Level music. It will probably be quite simple, as I'm limited to 10 instruments and no more than 3 minutes long. I've got a sort of marimba/string serialism motif going on.. I'll post the MP3 when it's finished

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M. Julliet, are you the composer for an official Playstation 2 videogame? That is exciting to have you in our midst if you are. Actually, it is exciting to have you in our midst even if you aren't because your music is quite impressive. Welcome to the site.

~Conor

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I like your Musashi Ballet, Fiery Angel. It is a great piece of music.

Thankyou. It's still a work in progress. I used quite a few different libs on that. SAM Horns/Solo Sessions for the brass, Prime Sounds Session Strings, EWQLSO Silver for winds, HALion String Edition....Glad you enjoyed it!

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Well, I've started a new project. I figured I'd write some good old fashioned elevator music! You know that's an up-and-coming genre! The melody is played by a flute, with piano, soft strings, accoustic bass, and percussion also. I've entitled the song "The 7th Floor" because it uses alot of jazzy maj7th chords, and it's an elevator song. Oh so clever!

The music isn't my usual style. Incidentally, if any of you want to take over future scoring projects and cut your teeth with this company, email david@kaiju.com and tell them you are interested (and that I sent you). The drawback is somewhat low pay and strict style types (I got $1500 for a whole DVD score). I did their first 2 DVDs and a few other things for them, but I'm no longer interested in working in that style. However, if you like what you hear in the trailer, and would like to rip off some old "Masked Rider" music and provide some pseudo HipHop score, it might be more up your alley. I pushed the envelope with some actual orchestral style, but they were usually frowny about it.

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M. Julliet, are you the composer for an official Playstation 2 videogame? That is exciting to have you in our midst if you are. Actually, it is exciting to have you in our midst even if you aren't because your music is quite impressive. Welcome to the site.

~Conor

Thank you Romantic to have taken time to hear my work.

I just did a videogame soundtrack a few time ago. This was a PC/Playstation game based on the caractere of Zorro. I enjoyed to do the job. I am actually working on a french movie. I am not the composer for this project, . I am doing the orchestrations for François PEYRONY, the composer, with a good friend of mine, Jean Philippe BEC. I am also the music production manager.

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Wow, these make me feel so... inadequate... I'd usually blame the quality of my compositions on my age, but there are people younger than me who write much better. Oh well, I'll just blame it on my lack of a sample library.

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Well, do you play any instrument? That can somewhat make up for the lack of sample library, to an extent (if you compose accordingly).

For this track, I only used MIDI drums and e-bass, and recorded all the strings myself (multiple violin tracks, plus cello and bass via recording with violin and transposing one or two ocatves down (well, doesn't sound exactly real, but it works )). And a bit of guitar and horn thrown in.

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Yeah, I play the piano, but find it much easier to transcribe music straight into the computer - and some of my best work has come straight from my brain to the keyboard. I don't find it any lesser way of composing - it just comes to me already playing and I simply transcribe it.

The main reason I don't want to do more Kaiju music is because they always want me to rip off other music. I never do, so they always feel a little disappointed. Its a little unfulfilling to have people constantly telling me to make it closer to the temp track, while I resist. Exhausting. Plus, they all listen to hip hop, so whenever they hear strings (even if it was in the temp track) they cringe.

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Speaking of samples... I have Native Instruments Kontakt Player Gold (for Sibelius 3) and Native Instrtuments Komplete 2 (Kompakt, Kontkat, Intakt, etc..) but this has limited samples. Does anyone know of a sample set with some nice flutes (not solo sort of thing, something that I could use more aggressively). Thanks

Oh, I use Sibelius 3 for writing and some sample outputting, and Cubase SX 2 for Final Output, touching up, volume leveling, VST Instruments, etc..